charlotteb Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 I'm working on my daughter's final transcript. She has 4 classes this semester that are .5 credit instead of a whole. This is the first time I've encountered this and its causing me some confusion with her GPA. Here is a snapshot from her transcript this year: Class Grade Quality Points Credit Given Creative Writing A 4 .5 Literary Analysis A 4 .5 American Gov't A 4 .5 Economics A 4 .5 Violin IV A 4 1 Kiswahili Language A 4 1 Bio Concepts A 4 1 So the problem is that usually to calculate GPA, you take the quality points and divide by the credit given. That's giving her a 5.6 GPA this year, which is great, but not true :) How do i calculate it differently for a .5 credit? Should the quality points be cut in half too? Or am I missing something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yvonne Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Had to look up what exactly a "quality point" was! This page has a pretty good explanation of "quality points" & how to calculate gpa. Bottom line: ( point value of the grade for the course) x (the number of credits for the course) = (number of "quality points") (Total number of "quality points" for the year) divided by (total number of credits for the year) = gpa Assuming A=4.0, for each of the 0.5 credit courses, 4.0 (A grade) x 0.5 credits = 2.0 quality points. So 8.0 "quality points" for all four half-credit classes. for the 1.0 credit courses, the "quality points" = 4.0 x 1.0 = 4.0 quality points, for a total of 12 quality points for all three full-credit courses. GPA = 20.0 quality points divided by 5 credit total = 4.0 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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